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...Hook 'Em Cows" are affluent, football-mad livestock commission merchants and packers of the Twin Cities. Since Stan Kostka comes from a little farm near South St. Paul, the stockyard centre of Minnesota, and has two brothers working in the stockyards, he has a natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games...
...platform of a convention hall, sat a trio of solemn judges, holding a little bunch of blue, red and yellow ribbons. They scrutinized a procession which passed through the hall, whispered among themselves. Old friends were the three; each year theirs is the task of pacing through the livestock pens at the county fair, bestowing prizes on Indiana's finest cattle. Among the exhibits which filed hopefully past them last week were no cattle but 240 pairs of humans, assembled in Warsaw's fourth annual Twins' Convention. Judging twins, the cattlemen found, was no easy job. Practiced...
...Administration attack on rising prices was being prepared. The President led off by authorizing Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to admit imports of livestock feed & forage duty free. Two other procedures were held in reserve: 1) reduction of tariffs on food; 2) use of AAA's power over all food processors, distributors and speculators to keep them from profiteering...
...farmers in and out of the drought area, the reasons were as plain as a pig's snout. For corn farmers will get double last summer's prices. For livestock, poultry and dairy products, which constitute the bulk of farm income, they can expect to realize nearly $700,000,000 more than last year...
...Meanwhile, however, the stock yards have been overrun with gaunt, stumbling beasts which stricken farmers can no longer feed, and this is why the price of ordinary meat-on-the-hoof has gained little. Government purchases of relief cattle may run as high as 12,000,000 head of livestock (including sheep and angora goats), more than one-half of which will be slaughtered. Such depletion of breeding stock will curtail U. S. meat production for years to come and prices of all meat will eventually rise...